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Oblong Books & Music

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Founded in 1975, Oblong Books & Music is the largest independent bookseller in the Mid-Hudson Valley. With a vibrant children's book & toy section, a large bargain books selection, and a knowledgeable staff, Oblong has something for everyone. Open daily.
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I am itching to post fan art of Strange the Dreamer, because a miracle happened and I got an ARC! But I’m sort of holding back, cause I feel like it will be too spoilery, until the rest of you have read it.

BUT if I get enough demands for it, if you lot want to see it sooner, let me know and I will post some!

For now, Karou from Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor.

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Oh, we loved Daughter of Smoke and Bone - and this fanart is gooooorgeous!

#daughter of smoke and bone#laini taylor
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This Week’s YA Bestsellers

What were the bestselling YA books at our stores this past week? Take a peek at what our YA fans are reading.

1. The Hate U Give, Angie Thomas. HarperTeen, $17.99. 2. Tales of the Peculiar, Ransom Riggs. Dutton, $24.99. 3. Six of Crows, Leigh Bardugo. Holt, $18.99. 4. The Bone Witch, Rin Chupeco. Sourcebooks Fire, $17.99. 5. Beauty & the Beast: Lost in a Book, Jennifer Donnelly. Disney, $16.99.

#ya lit#ya books#angie thomas#the hate u give#six of crows#ransom riggs#leigh bardugo#rin chupeco#the bone witch#jennifer donnelly#beauty and the beast#lost in a book#ya bestsellers
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The Philosopher Queen: Rebecca Solnit

It's a cool October evening, and writer Rebecca Solnit is onstage at Columbia University's Miller Theatre telling a story. She was 19, she says, strolling San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf, when she realized she was being followed by "a well-dressed white man murmuring a long string of vile sexual proposals to me." This is a familiar scenario to tonight's mostly female audience; we wait for the punch line: "When I turned around and told him to fuck off, he told me I had no right to speak to him like that." We laugh. But: "It's sort of not funny, because then he threatened to kill me." 

Our Social Justice Book Group meets on March 21 at 6 pm in Rhinebeck to talk about two Rebecca Solnit books: Hope in the Dark and Men Explain Things To Me. Not sure if you want to join? Read this piece in Elle - and then run to the store and grab your copies, because Solnit is one amazing essayist.

Source: ELLE
#rebecca solnit#men explain things to me#hope in the dark#rhinebeck#oblong books
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Happy International Women’s Day!

What better way to celebrate International Women’s Day than books ABOUT women, BY women? Here are nine recommendations across the board of books to read today - and tomorrow - and the rest of the month.

#booklr#the hate u give#lindy west#ruth bader ginsberg#international women's day#recommendations
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Love audiobooks? Try Libro.fm!

If you love audiobook subscriptions like Audible but want to support independent bookstores like us, we’ve got the perfect solution for you: Libro.fm. We’ve been partnered with them for months on selling individual audioboooks, but they finally launched a subscription service! YAY!

How does it work?

Simple: a customer gets their first audiobook for $0.99 and then pays $14.99 per month thereafter for one audiobook per month.

Here are some membership highlights:

  • Over 70,000 titles
  • First month for $0.99
  • $14.99 monthly fee (one audiobook/month)
  • 30% off additional audiobooks
  • Free Libro.fm iOS and Android App
  • Membership credits never expire
  • DRM-Free (listen on multiple devices)
  • Superior audio quality (2X industry standard)

Get your first Libro.fm audiobook for just $0.99 now!

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#booklr#audiobooks#audible#oblong books#indie bookstore
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Celebrate Women’s History Month with Julie Scelfo on March 1!

Wednesday, March 1 Oblong Rhinebeck @ 6 pm

Read any history of New York City and you will read about men. You will read about men who were political leaders and men who were activists and cultural tastemakers. These men have been lauded for generations for creating the most exciting and influential city in the world. But that’s not the whole story…The Women Who Made New York reveals the untold stories of the phenomenal women who made New York City the cultural epicenter of the world. Many were revolutionaries and activists, like Zora Neale Hurston and Audre Lorde. Others were icons and iconoclasts, like Fran Lebowitz and Grace Jones. There were also women who led quieter private lives but were just as influential, such as Emily Warren Roebling, who completed the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge when her engineer husband became too ill to work.

Paired with striking, contemporary illustrations by artist Hallie Heald, The Women Who Made New York offers a visual sensation—one that reinvigorates not just New York City’s history but its very identity.

Learn more about the event. RSVP now! Preorder signed books. (Yes, we ship!)

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Kick off Women’s History Month with us tonight!

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Join us for the book launch of The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge!

Wednesday, March 8 Oblong Rhinebeck @ 6 pm

From the award-winning author and New Yorker contributor, a riveting novel about secrets and scandals, psychiatry and pulp fiction, inspired by the lives of H.P. Lovecraft and his circle. Marina Willett, M.D., has a problem. Her husband, Charlie, has become obsessed with H.P. Lovecraft, in particular with one episode in the legendary horror writer's life: In the summer of 1934, the "old gent" lived for two months with a gay teenage fan named Robert Barlow, at Barlow's family home in central Florida. What were the two of them up to? Were they friends--or something more? Just when Charlie thinks he's solved the puzzle, a new scandal erupts, and he disappears. The police say it's suicide. Marina is a psychiatrist, and she doesn't believe them.

We're excited to be the local launch venue for Paul La Farge's much anticipated new novel. He is also the author of The Artist of the Missing, Haussmann or the Distinction, and Luminous Airplanes and a book of imaginary dreams, The Facts of Winter. He lives in a subterranean ‘annex’ here in the Hudson Valley, where he is almost certainly up to no good.

Learn more about the event. RSVP now! Preorder signed books. (Yes, we ship!)

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#the night ocean#paul la farge#oblong books#rhinebeck#event
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5 women trailblazers in Dutchess

Suzanna Hermans likes to say that she grew up in a bookstore. Her father, Dick Hermans, founded Oblong Books & Music in Millerton in 1975, 10 years before she born.
“I’ve literally been doing this since I was tall enough to look over the counter,” Hermans says.
In 2007, after college, she came back to the business full time and she now manages the Rhinebeck store and co-owns the business with her father.
The Oblong stores have a strong sense of place, with a large display of Hudson Valley guidebooks as well as books, some rather obscure, on Hudson Valley history. And there’s a huge selection of cookbooks, highlighting Rhinebeck’s proximity to the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park.
The store is also reflective of current politics. Hermans recently launched a Social Justice Book Group at Oblong to encourage the community to come together to read and learn in a safe space.
“In this political climate, we’re all stressed and on edge,” she says. “A bookstore is a good place for people to come together to talk about things.”

Hey! That’s our boss! Check out the full article in The Poughkeepsie Journal.

Source: poughkeepsiejournal.com
#oblong books#rhinebeck#hudson valley#the poughkeepsie journal#booklr